Big change

Today's normal weekly team meeting started by my boss writing to the whiteboard two words: "I QUIT".

What else can I add, except that he was maybe the best boss I've ever had and that I shall miss him. I hate office politics. I hate small managers with illusions of grandeur and boys' clubs, and today I've learned things about our company I'd rather not know.

I'm in a state of shock. My boss is the person who has made the workplace as good as possible and shielded us from the shit that has been happening elsewhere, he's the person that helped me to get a more meaningful position and he was the one who went out of his way to get me a rise after I'd been in the company for only few weeks. Whoever will replace him is unlikely to rise to his level.

Impossible to say what's going to happen next - they might bring in someone from outside of the team, or select someone from within to become the manager. Either way, it will take a while for things to settle down.

I think I'm probably making it sound worse than it is. It's not about life and death as it is elsewhere, and I'm not in the danger of losing my job or anything like that, it's unlikely that my job will even change. I'm just feeling very emotional right now because I don't know what's going to happen. Maybe nothing will. Something I do know, something I learned during the time I was unemployed - I refuse to let my work life overshadow rest of my life, and work will never by my number one priority again. If it will get too stressful, I will look for something else.

We'll see.

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